Singapore as a global hub needs both U.S. and China, says think tank

US Vice President Kamala Harris is in Singapore on her maiden visit to the region under the Biden administration. In an interview with CNBC, Associate Professor Simon Tay, Chairman of the SIIA, said, “We’ve understood from America and the Biden Administration, they don’t want us to choose either [US or China]. We are delighted to have Kamala Harris today and tomorrow if the Chinese sends a senior policymaker to talk about something serious, we would be happy, and necessarily so, to host them as well. I think Singapore, like so many other countries in this region, really want both [powers]. We want a world which is much more globalised, which we can be a part of, with friends made on a rational basis. Singapore here as a hub we’ve got Google, we’ve got a lot of the high-tech companies from America but we also have got Huawei, Tencent and that’s the kind of rationality I hope to see here in Asia, dealing with the global play.”

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/08/23/singapore-as-a-global-hub-needs-both-us-and-china-says-think-tank.html